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God's Challenge!
Understand My Plan

By Douglas Berner 

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256 pages
Subject and Scripture Indexes
Dimensions:  6 x 9 inches

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God's Challenge!
Understand My Plan

List of Illustrations

 

 Bible Prophecy: A Puzzle for the Ages ........................................................................... 13
 Creation Week ................................................................................................................ 21
 Table: Redemption is in the Blood ................................................................................. 28
 Hourglass ....................................................................................................................... 29
 Biblical Prophetic Timeline ............................................................................................. 34
 A Prophetic Intersections ................................................................................................ 41
 First Puzzle Piece: Joel 2 ............................................................................................... 42
 Second Puzzle Piece: Acts 2:16-21 ............................................................................... 43
 Third Puzzle Piece: 6th Seal .......................................................................................... 44
 Fourth Puzzle Piece: Isaiah 2 ......................................................................................... 46
 Prophetic Vectors ........................................................................................................... 49
 Table: God's Pattern ....................................................................................................... 51
 First Vector Puzzle Piece: Prophetic Week .................................................................... 55
 God's Prophetic Week .................................................................................................... 57
 Table: Seven Prophetic Days ......................................................................................... 58
 Jewish Concept of God's Timeline ................................................................................. 65
 Table: The Prophetic Ages ............................................................................................. 68
 Larkin: The Seven Thousand Years of Human History .................................................. 68
 Larkin: The Seven Thousand Years of Human History (Landscape) ............................. 71
 The pattern of the Ages as Watches .............................................................................. 72
 The Broad Pattern of the Ages ....................................................................................... 75
 Vector 1: God's Big Picture Pattern ................................................................................ 81
 Second Vector Puzzle Piece: Hosea's Two Days .......................................................... 82
 Hosea 6:2 Timeline ......................................................................................................... 85
 Third Vector Puzzle Piece: Fig Tree Generation ............................................................ 93
 Table: The Nations of the Middle East ........................................................................... 95
 Fig Tree Generation ...................................................................................................... 101
 Congruence of the Year 1948 ...................................................................................... 109
 Ezekiel 4 and the Restoration of Israel ......................................................................... 112
 Jewish Return & Revival in Unbelief ............................................................................ 122
 Fourth Vector Puzzle Piece: All These Things ............................................................. 129
 Prophetic Vectors ......................................................................................................... 135
 Character Matters! ........................................................................................................ 142
 First Character Puzzle Piece ........................................................................................ 143
 Second Character Puzzle Piece ................................................................................... 145
 Third Character Puzzle Piece ....................................................................................... 146
 Fourth Character Puzzle Piece ..................................................................................... 148
 Table: Character Matters! ............................................................................................. 155
 New Testament Support for the Rapture ...................................................................... 173
 First Rapture Puzzle Piece: John 14: 1-3 ..................................................................... 174
 Second Rapture Puzzle Piece: 1 Thes 4:13-18 ............................................................ 177
 Third Rapture Puzzle Piece: 1 Co 15:51-52 ................................................................. 181
 Fourth Rapture Puzzle Piece: Rev 19:7-8 .................................................................... 183
 Magnet Rapture Graphic .............................................................................................. 186
 Day of Christ vs. Day of the LORD ............................................................................... 187
 Olivet Discourse vs. Seal Judgments ........................................................................... 195
 The Beginning of Sorrows ............................................................................................ 200
 First Travail Puzzle Piece: Great War ........................................................................... 203
 Second Travail Puzzle Piece: Famines ........................................................................ 208
 Third Travail Puzzle Piece: Pestilences ....................................................................... 209
 Fourth Travail Puzzle Piece: Global Earthquake .......................................................... 211
 The Promised Land ...................................................................................................... 231
 The Royal Grant to Abraham ........................................................................................ 232
 God's Event Horizon: The Day of the LORD ................................................................ 241
 
 

 

God's Challenge!
Understand My Plan

Table of Contents

 

 List of Illustrations ......................................................................................................... 7
 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 9

 1.  God's Challenge! .................................................................................................... 11
        Bible Prophecy: A Puzzle for the Ages ................................................................ 13
        God has a Plan! ................................................................................................... 19
        Sands of Time ...................................................................................................... 29
        The Prophetic Timeline ........................................................................................ 32

 2.  A Prophetic Intersection ......................................................................................... 40

 3.  Prophetic Vectors ................................................................................................... 49
        Vector 1. God's Big Picture .................................................................................. 51
            God's Pattern ................................................................................................... 51
            God's Prophetic Week ..................................................................................... 55
            Seven Prophetic Days ..................................................................................... 58
            7,000 Years in Jewish History .......................................................................... 63
            Watches in the Night ........................................................................................ 72
            Fullness of Time ............................................................................................... 76
            The Seventh Day - Christ's Reign .................................................................... 77
            The Last Day .................................................................................................... 79
        Vector 2. Two Days .............................................................................................. 82
            Hosea's Two Days ........................................................................................... 82
            Two Days in the Life of Jesus (x2) ................................................................... 88
         Vector 3. The Fig Tree Generation ...................................................................... 90
            Process of Transition ........................................................................................ 90
            Fig Tree Generation ......................................................................................... 93
            Significance of the Year 1948 ........................................................................ 102
            The State of Israel in 1948: Unbelief .............................................................. 113
            This Generation: Futurism vs. Preterism ........................................................ 125
        Vector 4. All These Things ................................................................................. 129
            Prophetic Vectors Conclusion ........................................................................ 135

 4. Character Matters! ................................................................................................. 141
        The Prophetic Character of the End of the Church Age ................................... 142
        The United States: Evidence of Character in Decline ........................................ 156

 5. The End of the Church Age .................................................................................. 172
        The Rapture of the Church ............................................................................... 173
        Who's Who in the Rapture? .............................................................................. 185

  6. Birth Pangs ........................................................................................................... 188
        The Beginning of Sorrows .................................................................................. 192
        Convergence of Prophetic Events .......................................................................196
        The Prophetic Intersection of Travail .................................................................. 201
            Great Warfare on Earth ................................................................................ 203
            Famine ......................................................................................................... 208
            Pestilence ....................................................................................................... 209
            Global Earthquake .......................................................................................... 211

 7. When Are We? ...................................................................................................... 214
        Are We in the Tribulation? .................................................................................. 215
        Daniel's 70 Weeks .............................................................................................. 219
        Issues with Jewish Chronology ......................................................................... 222
        Israel's Promised Borders .................................................................................. 225
        What Happens Next? ......................................................................................... 235

 8. God's Event Horizon ............................................................................................. 238

 Subject and Author Index .......................................................................................... 243

 Scripture Index .......................................................................................................... 250

 

Book Summary

God's Challenge! Understand My Plan is an examination of God's Plan and God's Timetable for human history. God challenges man to seek out the pieces of His prophetic plan and to solve His pattern. God has a plan for mankind which is revealed in the Bible. God has a pattern by which His plan and timeline can be better understood.

This design motif emerges from God's pattern of Creation Week followed by the Sabbath Day of Rest which is later repeated throughout the Bible. Multiple aspects of God's plan play out prophetically through the historical ages of man until they converge in a key generation of mankind.

Why is this generation different than the generations that preceded it? Will God finally intervene during the generation alive today? If so, why now? How will God intervene? What does God's prophetic word reveal about this generation and the time ahead?

God's Challenge! Understand My Plan takes up the challenge that God throws at man to assemble some of the pieces of God's prophetic puzzle to better reveal the character and the destiny of the times in which we live. Douglas Berner is a retired Criminal Investigator who applies skills of case analysis and  the evaluation of criminal evidence to the examination of the prophetic puzzle of the End Times.